03/09/2026
Coates Charcoal Featured Artist 🖤
We’re incredibly proud of all the wonderful artists who create such incredible pieces using our charcoal sticks & powder. So, we’ve taken the opportunity to ask a few of them some questions so we can all get to know them a little bit better.
Introducing Katy Bailey PS who uses our Coates Charcoal primarily for her life drawings. 🖤
1. How would you describe yourself as an artist? What influences you?
My work is a diary in paint, I follow my passions about nature, love and life. I am interested in memory, residual energy, a sense of knowing a place or a person so well that that knowing evokes a response in the viewer.
2. What pieces do you create using our charcoal?
With your charcoal, always life drawings, a charcoal stick is the first thing I go to, large stormy skies, light, I use a putty rubber to add light. Landscapes, woodlands.
3. What are your favourite Coates Charcoal products? What do you love most about using them?
Coates charcoals, again about memory, I remember the boxes I had at art school in 1978, they are the only ones I pick up in the art shop for that reason. I love that they come in different thicknesses, I love the natural process of the making, it very much is what I am all about, from the land to hand to paper.
Thanks for sharing your talent with us Katy - we love a Charcoal stick is the first thing you reach for. 🖤
